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Atrahasis Epic (OBV) 1.38-46, 59-69, 85-102:
They (= the gods) suffered the work night and day. They [were complaining], backbiting, grumbling in the excavation: “Let us confront our [ … ], the chamberlain, that he may relieve us of our heavy work. [ … ], the counsellor of the gods, the hero, come, let us unnerve him in his dwelling! … Enlil, counsellor of the gods, the hero, come, let us unnerve him in his dwelling!” Now, proclaim war, let us mingle hostilities and battle!” The gods heeded his words, they set fire to their tools, fire to their spades they put and flame to their hods. They held them as they went to the gate of the shrine of the hero Enlil. … Enlil opened his mouth and addressed the vizier Nusku: “Nusku, bar your gate, take your weapons and stand before me. Nusku barred his gate, took his weapons and stood before Enlil. Nusku opened his mouth and addressed the hero Enlil: “My lord, sons are your … Why do you fear your own sons? Send that Anu be fetched down, and that Enki be brought to your presence.” He sent and Anu was fetched down, Enki was brought also to his presence. Anu, king of heaven, was present, king of the Apsû, Enki, was in attendance.
Homer, Iliad 1.396-406:
(Thetis:) For often I have heard you glorying in the halls of my father, and declaring that you alone among the immortals warded off shameful ruin from the son of Kronos, lord of the dark clouds, on the day when the other Olympians wished to put him in bonds, even Hera and Poseidon and Pallas Athene. But you came, goddess, and freed him from his bonds, when you had quickly called to high Olympus him of the hundred hands, whom the gods call Briareus, but all men Aigaion; for he is mightier than his father. He sat down by the side of the son of Kronos, exulting in his glory, and the blessed gods were seized with fear of him, and did not bind Zeus.
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Atrahasis Epic (OBV) 1.38-46
Atrahasis Epic (OBV) 1.59-69
Atrahasis Epic (OBV) 1.85-102
Homer, Iliad 1.396-406
Bibliography
| Burkert 1992, 105-106 | Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. |
| Lambert and Millard 1969, 44-49 | Lambert, W. G. and A. R. Millard. Atrahasis. The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969. |
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